SPEND YOUR MONEY!

NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
  
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo                 $17.99   $22.99   
Brooklyn’s Finest                                       $16.99  $24.99 
A Single Man                                            $17.99   $24.99   


$10 DVDs

Coraline
Iron Man (2008)
Shrek the Third
Crazy on the Outside

$7.50 DVDs

August Rush
The Notebook
Bride Wars
Horton Hears a Who (CG Animated version)

BLU-RAY sale

$14.99

Big Trouble in Little China
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Sex and the City: The Movie
Watchmen: Director’s Cut  (not the 4-Disc release)
Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut
The Boondock Saints
The Princess Bride
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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo                 $16.99   $19.99   
Brooklyn’s Finest                                       $15.99  $19.99 
A Single Man                                            $17.99   $22.99   
Shutter Island                                            $19.99    

BLU-RAY sale

$9.99

The Express
The Dirty Dozen
Dark City
Paris Je T’Aime

$14.99

Movies in Italics comes with Free Movie Ticket for Despicable Me

Across the Universe
Heat
The Protector
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Coraline
Land of the Lost
The Tale of Despereaux

DISNEY DVD Sale

$14.99

Bolt
G-Force
Robin Hood
Mary Poppins
Pinocchio
Pocahontas
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Snow White and the Seven Dwafs

Video Game Sales Update

Target

Xbox 360 Arcade $129.99 + $30 gift card
The Last Airbender $39.99/$29.99 with FREE movie voucher (up to $7.50) for the movie.

FREE $10 GC with purchase of any one of these games (all priced at $59.99 except where noted):

• UFC 2010
• Red Dead Redemption
• Lost Planet 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Blur
• Splinter Cell
• Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands
• Assassin’s Creed 2

Best Buy

• Red Dead Redemption $44.99
• UFC Undisputed 2010 $39.99
• Spinter Cell Conviction $39.99

TOYS R US

Free $15 Toys R Us GC when you buy The Last Airbender
Save $30 on “R” Nintendo DS value Bundle
Choose DSi XL, DSi, or DS Lite+Universal Transporter+1 of these games:
Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After, Despicable Me The Game, Iron Man 2,
The Last Airbender, Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands.
Buy a Wii cosnsole, get a free Wii Wireless Ultra Sensor plus either Cloudy With a Chance of Meat Balls or Nerf N-Strike
Buy Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4, get Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga,
Lego Indiana Jones the Original Adventures, or Lego Batman the Video
Game for $5

K-Mart

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands $39.99
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction $39.99
Skate 3 $39.99
Crackdown 2 $20 Microsoft Gaming Coupon (Extended through September for Halo Reach)
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor – $20 Nintendo Gaming Coupon
UFC: Undisputed 2010 $39.99
Dante’s Inferno $29.99
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow $20 Video Game Coupon

THIS WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD

Did you miss a review this week? A lot of titles go unnoticed during the hectic news days around the site.

Click here to discover some of the latest DVD reviews.

THE REST OF THE DVDs THIS WEEK

Battle League Horumo
Battlestar Galactica: Seasons 4.0 And 4.5 (Two-Season Value Pack)
Bitten
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brother Outsider: The Life Of Bayard Rustin
The Burnt House
Chicago (1927)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II (The Collector’s Choice)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II (The Collector’s Choice)
Doc Martin: Series Four
Doctor Who: Story 15/16 – The Space Museum/The Chase
Doctor Who: Story 64 – The Time Monster
Doctor Who: Story 96 – Underworld
Doctor Who: Story 180 – The Horns Of Nimon
Dragnet 1968: Season Two
ER: The Complete Thirteenth Season
Eva
Eyeborgs
Eyeshield 21, Collection 2
The Game: Season Three – The Final Season
Gamera Vs. Barugon
Ghost Slayers Ayashi: Complete Collection
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
God Of Vampires
Gurren Lagann TV Series: Complete Collection
Have Gun Will Travel: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2
Have Gun Will Travel: Four-Season Value Pack
Hayate The Combat Butler, Vol. 6
Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny, Vol. 3: Sousou’s Ambition
Last Chance To See
Legal Eagles
Life On Mars (UK): The Complete Collection
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Season Two, Pt. 2 (Standard Edition)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Season Two, Pt. 2 (Special Edition)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Heirs To The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam II: Lovers
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III: Love Is The Pulse Of The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Movie Complete Collection
Mushishi: The Complete Collection
One Piece: Season Three, 1st Voyage
Project Runway: The Complete Seventh Season
Recycled Parts
Rhoda: Season Three
A Single Man
Sixgun
The Sophisticated Misfit: The Art And World Of Shag
Squidbillies, Vol. 3
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition) (Kino)
Touching Evil: The Complete Collection
Ultimate Conditioning, Vol. 1: Strikers
Ultimate Conditioning, Vol. 2: Ground Fighters
Ultimate Conditioning, Vol. 3: Kickers
The Wind Journeys

BLU-RAY: IT’S GETTING CHEAPER

Action Double Feature: Last Man Standing/The Last Boy Scout
Brooklyn’s Finest
Comedy Double Feature: Funny Farm/Spies Like Us
Comedy Double Feature: Practical Magic/The Witches Of Eastwick
Eyeborgs
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Horror Double Feature: Dr. Giggles/Otis
Jason And The Argonauts
Jimmy Hollywood
Ladybugs
Larry The Cable Guy: Git-R-Done
Last Chance To See
Love And Other Disasters
The Memphis Belle: In HD
A Single Man
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

VIDEO GAMES

section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!

CRACKDOWN 2
Microsoft
360
6/6
MSRP: $59.99

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I tried, people. I tried SO hard to love Crackdown like the cool kids
did, but it took all of a week for the game to bore the piss out of me.
There’s some fun gameplay mechanics at work, tied to a cracker bland
set of missions and environments. So, now, Microsoft’s taking another
crack at it (I swear on all things holy that pun was unintended), and
since then, Prototype, Infamous, Just Cause 2 have happened, all of
which do things Crackdown 1 failed at, and, judging from the demo and
trailers, haven’t been addressed in the sequel. There’s certainly
enough going on for it that I can’t begrudge anyone’s excitement for
Crackdown 2, but it’ll take a lot more than the ability to hurl a truck
across a city to get a rise out of me, especially while my beloved Red
Dead Redemption has its claws in me still.

DESPICABLE ME
D3 of America
Wii, DS, PSP, PS2
6/6
MSRP: $39.99 Wii; $29.99 DS, PSP; $19.99 PS2


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To be perfectly honest, I got nothing to say about this game. D3’s put
out some fun, if disposable stuff before (Onechanbara, Earth Defense
Force 2017, and Dark Sector to be precise), but their licensed games
unilaterally squirt mediocrity from every oriface. I’m mostly drawing
this out just to point out THERE’S STILL PS2 GAMES BEING MADE, and
should the system hobble its way into 2011, it will have outlived both
its predecessor and the NES, thus snatching the record for the longest
lifecycle for a computer entertainment system.

Damn.

OTHER GAMES OF INTEREST

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (Atlus; PSP; $39.99)

OOOHHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

DRAGON AGE ORIGINS: LEILANA’S SONG 
360, PS3, PC
6/6
$6.99/560 MS pts

From a story standpoint, this DLC reminds me a lot of the Kasumi DLC
from Mass Effect 2, but that’s in no way a bad thing, unless gamers get
shafted on the mission length. What is important here is realizing just
how well EA/Bioware have been supporting these games so long after
release, and how screwed I am in the wallet once I actually buy Dragon
Age for myself.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Creedence Clearwater Revival Pack 01 ($19.99/1600 MS pts)
· Bad Moon Rising
· Born on the Bayou
· Down on the Corner
· Fortunate Son (Original Version)
· Green River
· I Heard It Through the Grapevine
· Lookin’ Out My Back Door
· Proud Mary
· Run Through the Jungle
· Travelin’ Band
· Up Around the Bend
· Who’ll Stop the Rain

You know what? Fuck you Harmonix. This is the third week in a row of
terrible, poppy, MTV mandated bullshit. Either you pull your heads out
of Viacom’s asses long enough get us some decent goddamn DLC or, Christ
alive, I’ll–

Wait…..CCR? Bad Moon Rising? Down On The Corner? A non-cover version of Fortunate Son? Who’ll Stop The Rain?

I, um…I….gosh, I’m sorry.

Carry on, then.

MUSIC

Section by Jeb D.

APHRODITE

Kylie Minogue

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I suppose I could spend a paragraph or so detailing the value of cheery, disposable pop. I could express admiration for the perseverance and positivity of this perky thrush from down under for the consistent level of her output over an amazing period of time; she was making hits when most of today’s pop stars were still singing along with Elmo. I could single out “All The Lovers” as the track to fill the dance floor at your next party, or detail all the various bonus video and live stuff on the Special Edition. But honestly, I was just looking for an excuse to post that picture.

CUSTOM BUILT

Bret Michaels

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In case anyone doubts that mainstream country and hair-metal pop have already made the beast with two backs, I present this album from that guy that didn’t quite die. I mean, good for him, I have no problem with his making a living, and this album is aimed right at the people who kept hitting “refresh” on TMZ a few months back to see if he’d pull through. It plods along, dispensing clichés both lyrical and musical with an admirably straight face. A couple lite-metal tracks, big-noise modern country ballads, guest appearances by people from Miley Cyrus to that guy from 3 Doors Down.  But honestly, if there were more interesting albums coming out this week, and if Michaels hadn’t had a legitmimately tough time, I’d probably have dismissed this with the same one-sentence snark I laid on Kenny G last week.

BLUES, BALLADS, AND FAVORITES

Jimmie Vaughan

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Been a busy few weeks on the white-boy blues front… and it says something about the state of things that, at 59, Vaughan is the youngest of the crop. This is all nice, tastefully shuffling stuff, but there’s a reason that Vaughan wasn’t the lead singer of the Fabulous Thunderbirds (hint: that involves being able to sing), and an even better reason that he was eclipsed by his kid brother: Stevie Ray took blues guitar places that hadn’t been much explored since Hendrix; Jimmie likes to boogie. I still give the 2010 white-blues nod to Elvin Bishop, but if you’re in the right mood, Vaughan will do you better than Steve Miller (or, god help us, Cyndi Lauper).

ALIVE

Ed Kowalczyk

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For the longest time, I didn’t realize there was actually a band called “Live”-I kept thinking I was seeing listings for new live albums by other artists. Anyway, this chap seems to be the driving force behind them, and if this is what they sound like, no wonder I was confused: if it doesn’t actually sound more generic than Bon Jovi, it’s not for want of trying. It says here that, for a couple of years, Kowalczyk “felt no urgency to write songs or have anything to do with music for that matter.” I can’t possibly top that.

Other Noteworthy 7/6 Music Releases

Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty. Not having had a chance to preview this one, I don’t have much of an opinion beyond the expectation that some Outkast fans may have underestimated this half of the duo.

How to Destroy Angels, How to Destroy Angels. Is it just the prospect of the upcoming Reznor-David Fincher collaboration that now makes this EP feel a bit anti-climactic? I’d say it’s more the rather conventionally breathy vocals that his missus lays over these driving tracks.

Rescues, Let Loose the Horses. These folks are evidently the go-to songsters when Grey’s Anatomy need to score a montage; their other credits seem to include One Tree Hill and Private Practice, and if this level of faceless pop is indicative of those shows, it’s just as well I’ve never seen any of them. Ideal for those who find Fleetwood Mac a bit too quirky and difficult.

Texas Hippie Coalition, Rollin’. These good ol’ boys like to compare their music to “Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, ZZ Top, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson… and Pantera.” Who am I to argue?

The Cat Empire, Cinema. If you’re looking for some quirky world-beat pop from Down Under to tide you over till the new Crowded House, this may serve. But I’ve heard the new Crowded House: I’d suggest you wait. It’s only another week.

A Plea For Purging, The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell. Considering their stated plans for “The Eternal Female” (rape, specifically), I hope these fellas aren’t contemplating actual “Marriage” anytime soon.

Walter Trout, Common Ground. You guessed it-more white-blues guitar. More imaginative than Jimmie, rocks harder than Cyndi.

Kelis, Flesh Tone. The diva as auteur, with the confidence to tackle subjects like “Home” and “4th of July” with the confidence that she has something to add. I was going to try and figure out why there was a full band playing on a song called “Acapalla,” but my toes were too busy tapping to worry about it.

Thieves Like Us, Again & Again. The woman on their last album cover was passed out drunk; the woman on the new one is doing card tricks with porno cards. Plus, she has great hair. What? Isn’t this music designed to make your mind wander? Sure the way it sounds.

Smash Palace, 7. Power pop that works intermittently, and since power is always easier to produce than pop, the guitars stick with you longer than the vocals. Often catchy, a bit by-the-numbers, and if you’re going to borrow from bands like The Kinks, you might think about not calling one of your songs “Dead End Street.”

THE WEEK OF JULY 6th 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR SECTION by: Troy Anderson

A SINGLE MAN
Director: Tom Ford
Sony/Weinstein Company

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Special Features

 

A Single Man was one of the most beautiful films I saw last year. Taken from the original novel by Isherwood, director Tom Ford delivers an impressive feature debut. First-time Oscar nominee Colin Firth delivers an incredible performance as Professor George Falconer. George has just lost the love of his life, but he can’t share his grief openly. He’s a gay man in early 60s America and no one seems willing to understand what/who he is. Finding safety in the arms of his friend Charley. Playing with color, memory and social convention; Ford helps to takes Isherwood’s story into a new realm. I highly recommend that everyone at CHUD gives it a rental.

SQUIDBILLIES: VOLUME THREE
Creators: Matt Maiellaro, Jim Fortier and Dave Willis

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Special Features

Squidbillies is one of the best animated shows airing right now. No one quite captures that true mystery of the Deep South like a bunch of squids achin’ to get back to Gatlinburg. The latest volume sports episodes ranging from the dangers of steroids to bitches to the gays. Earlie Cuyler represents everything that anyone from the Southeastern United States has fought to eradicate from the popular landscapes. Well, the self-aware members of the South. Everyone else ignores it or they partake of meth. The DVD also comes with some Dragon Con 2009 footage and a look at the music and artwork for the series.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
d. Niels Arden Oplev

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the highest grossing film in Denmark ever. Sure, it’s an adaptation of an insanely popular book series. David Fincher is supposed to be working on American version of the film. Basically, it’s a better written Dan Brown style adventures about a weird family and a gruesome murder. A disgraced reporter and a hacker team up to crack the case, but they only discover more dead bodies tied to the strange Vanger family. Working against all hope, they try to find out why the Vangers always seem to be covering up strange deaths. If you’re a fan of the book, you’ll enjoy the adaptation. All others might want to try and rent first.

BROOKLYN’S FINEST
d.  Antoine Fuqua

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Special Features

• Featurettes
• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Trailer
  

Brooklyn’s Finest is
a strong enough crime drama.  Don Cheadle, Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke struggle to break out of that Training Day shadow that looms over the film. If anything, it feels like Mike Newell trying to ape Sidney Lumet. Wesley Snipes shows up and he’s just there to bring some sort of ethnic edge to the events. I’m sorry, but I can’t buy Passenger 57 as a tough guy anymore. Still, it’s a nice effort that deserves a second look on Home Video. Richard Gere carries a lot of the film based on his ability to actually portray a realistic cop who’s divided between what he should do and what he wants to do. Director Antoine Fuqua feels like he’s so close to making a truly great movie. He just needs to shake off these outside influences and make an original film.

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